I think Graham overseeing is good. He’s been pissed because he doesn’t like ppl prying into what he sees as Kavanaughs personal life, because he’s been on the receiving end so much. But I honestly believe he hates trump and is positioning himself as the savior if the glass ever needs to be broken. I thought his attempt to be AG was so that he could protect Mueller in the long run.

Trump is answering Mueller’s written questions now. Not his lawyers, or so he says. ‘It’s easy.’ Man, I would love it if that were so.

I expect non-answers that provide no excuse/opportunity for cross. Of course, Trump doesn’t know what Mueller knows, so we’ll see if his answers provide cause for more inquiry. Or corner Trump into perjuring himself.

I think Graham really wanted to be a star of the stage, but show business is such a struggle most of the time. It’s very difficult to make a comfortable living doing theater. The South Carolina senate seat pays a good income, while also providing a stage for Graham to showcase his drama performance skills. He is quite good really.

Hillary holds no public office. She’s done. I have no doubt she’ll be called in to answer questions for years. So what? What she’s done is all in the past.

What is happening in the present is that Trump is using unsecured phones. He’s refusing to switch to secured systems, saying theyre inconvenient. That’s happening in the present. That’s something our current president is doing. I’m not concerned about some has-been like Hillary.

Come back to the present, HW. What do you think about things being done now by people in office now.

All crimes are in the past by the time they are dealt with in the legal system so it’s a strange argument to make. Don’t worry she colluded with Russians and corrupt American officials to try to undo our election – it was in the past.

No, I don’t blindly believe anybody. That goes for news sources, most of which I think are a joke. It also goes for president who says many things that are false.

I would have expected Fox or Brietbart to report some details to support Trump’s claim that he is only using secured phones. That’s what they do, when they can. If they haven’t, it’s most likely because they can’t.

I think you and I would agree that there is a lot more going on behind the scenes and under the surface than is being reported in the press. I will be interesting to get your take on developments as they happen from this point forward.

“I know Fox and Breitbart would have made a stink about it if they could have. I think you are just accepting anything Trump says, as if he wouldn’t and hasn’t lied to you ever before.
But I guess that’s how we are different. There’s no point in trying to change each other’s minds.”

You don’t even want to think about that Hillary could actually be guilty of a mountain of criminal activity in betrayal of the USA as many people believe. I try not to believe anything if I can help it but I do play the odds. If you ask me the odds are she is guilty as are many others of massive criminality. What are the 61,000 sealed indictments for do you think? Ever since Huber was appointed they started piling up.

Hillary Clinton is probably one of the most investigated people in our country. She has been investigated by both public and private parties for *decades*. It seems likely that if there was something to find, it would have been found.

She is still influential so I wouldn’t say that she doesnt matter but I will concede that because she doesn’t currently hold public office her alleged criminality should be less urgent of an issue than Trump’s. He is in power NOW and so if he is abusing his power, it is pretty important that we put a stop to it. Lock him up! Lock him up!

I think Lynn and I will be just fine, HW. They’re not going to lock Hillary up. Even Trump isn’t going to be locked up. He’s more likely to die of old age soon.

I think the unsealed indictments are a ploy. I don’t think anything is going to come of them.

We can all sit back and watch how this plays out. We should all be thankful we live in such interesting and eventful times. Many people have lived and died without seeing much of anything historical or interesting. We see so much so fast it’s almost impossible to process really. I can see everyone here is certainly having a lot of trouble trying to fathom it all. I just hope we can all still live meaningful and fulfilling lives in the midst of all this.

I’ve seen much bigger and stranger things done as ploys. But I assume those unsealed indictments are being used as threats to hang over the heads of officials for purposes of extortion.

In the early 2000s, extortion of all kinds was used to keep much of the GOP congress in line with the massive rackets the military contractors were running. Extortion is a frequently used tool in politics.

There are many interests always applying extraordinary pressure to all our elected officials. At the federal level, many of those interests are absolutely ruthless. There is nothing they would not do to ensure their objectives are protected and advanced. They often get all sorts of dirt on officials for purposes of controlling them. It is even common for very compromised individuals to be installed to higher office by the interests which have control over them.

That is what the rigging of the 2000 presidential election was all about. Much of what was done to forward that military industrial conplex’s scheme would blow the average citizens mind.

“They often get all sorts of dirt on officials for purposes of controlling them. It is even common for very compromised individuals to be installed to higher office by the interests which have control over them.”

You need to take that line of thought and run with it. Just don’t run in the exact wrong direction. The indictments are for people involved in exactly what you are talking about.

Not only have I been running with lines of thought over the last few decades, HW, but I’ve been taking action to get answers. I have gotten involved to see things with my own eyes, so as to gain the sort of understanding that only comes from first hand experience. From my experience, my best guess is that any massing of sealed indictments is being done for purposes of extortion, control, leverage, threat, or whatever one might want to call it. If thousands of these indictments are suddenly unsealed as you predict, I will certainly acknowledge that your instincts were superior. However, if they aren’t, what will you think? Will you just accept more explanations from the same sources? Let’s just wait and find out what happens with those things. We only have a few weeks to wait, right?

OMG–That is the absolute worst thing I have ever heard, HW. On like every possible level, it’s just bad. I suggest everyone listen to this. It’s really quite remarkable. PS HW that’s not flow; That’s verbal vomit. And really fucked up appropriation of Black culture to foment revolution in support of a white supremacist.

Your power is fading, White dude, and that makes you angry. I’m not angry. I welcome what is to come. I welcome disruption too, but what I see coming is the polar opposite of what you hang your hopes on. I’m patient. And calm. Bring it on.

There are concrete indications that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is now about the business of laying down the last big pieces of the puzzle of Russian intervention in the 2016 election.

Mueller already has done the difficult digging on the Russian side of the equation, bringing detailed indictments in February 2018 for a wide-ranging Russian trolling operation related to the campaign, as well as the July 2016 hacking of Democratic Party emails. Now he’s looking to tie those allegations to people close to the Trump campaign.

The upshot may be allegations of “collusion,” of the sort the president has long denied. The actual charges are likely to be one of three criminal conspiracies: violating federal election laws, violating computer laws, or soliciting or receiving something of value from a foreign government. Charges, in other words, that not even the most ardent Trump die-hard could trivialize. They bring with them the possibility that Mueller might opt to name President Trump himself as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Look first for an indictment against radio commentator Joseph Corsi, who told the world last week that after several months of his cooperating with the probe, Mueller has informed him that he will be charged with “some form of lying” to the Mueller team.

A fabulist, blowhard, and general odd duck, Corsi might seem like small quarry for Mueller. But as with Paul Manafort’s lobbying partner Rick Gates, whose cooperation anchored the tax and fraud case against the former Trump campaign manager, Corsi is directly connected to another Trump insider, Roger Stone. Stone was in regular contact with candidate Trump during the campaign, and perhaps with WikiLeaks and its Russian sources.

Stone and Corsi appear to have had advance knowledge of the WikiLeaks October 2016 release of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. Both men have indicated that Corsi was the source of Stone’s foolish Twitter boast and prophecy: It would “soon [be] Podesta’s time in the barrel.” Corsi suggests, implausibly, that he just sussed out WikiLeaks’ moves from publicly available sources, and Stone insists his email wasn’t referring to hacking or WikiLeaks anyway. He says he had no advance knowledge of the Podesta reveal.

And yet, given that the first cache from Podesta’s account was released a matter of minutes after the “Access Hollywood” tape sent the Trump campaign reeling, it seems possible the release was a coordinated effort, and Stone could have been the conduit.

Another augury of blockbuster developments: Mueller last week filed a statement in the District of Columbia court that is overseeing the case of Manafort, who awaits sentencing on his tax and fraud conviction. Mueller requested a 10-day delay in submitting a status report on the ground that the later report would “be of greater assistance” to the court’s work determining what sentence Manafort deserves. Mueller’s request strongly suggests that we’ll soon see important additional information bearing on the value of Manafort’s cooperation, up to and including a potential role as a key witness in a soon-to-be-unveiled criminal case.

The whole point of the enormous pressure Mueller brought to bear against Manafort was to shake loose information about persons above him in the food chain. Those are very few, arguably only Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner or Trump himself (who we know believes that Manafort could incriminate him).

Finally, Mueller’s team is scheduled to file a long-delayed court memorandum Dec. 4, laying out its view of the value of the cooperation of former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty more than a year ago to lying about his contacts with a Russian official. His sentencing was put off four times as the prosecutors continued to develop new cases and charges based on the information he provided. That they are now prepared to close the books suggests that they will be informing the court, and thus the public, of the full extent of his cooperation, including imminent new charges or charges that have been filed under seal.